longanimity
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /lɒŋɡəˈnɪmɪti/
longanimity (uncountable)
- (now rare) Patience or tolerance in the face of adversity; forbearance, long-suffering.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- It had overcome the patience of Job, as it did the meekness of Moses, and would surely have mastered any, but the longanimity, and lasting sufferance of God [...].
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
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